Illumination /
The word was uttered but the orator is long gone. The light is shining but the star is long extinguished. Read more
Gershman’s effort evokes not only Whistler’s and Sargent’s, but that from which they took inspiration, Manet’s and Velazquez’s – masters of the figure who in their own ways avoided the banal literalities of their contemporaries for a rendition truer to the vagaries of vision, and (thereby) to the dynamics of human presence.
Peter Frank | Art Critic
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